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         <p>  <b>The Anglo-Saxon Penitentials: A Cultural Database</b> was programmed by <b>Matt Sellars</b> in 2005-2006 and designed with his help, with modifications by <b>Chris Grubbs</b> in 2007. I am most grateful to them and to <b>George Thiravathukal</b> of the Computer Science Department of Loyola University
	      Chicago.
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	 <p>  During this project I have had the pleasure of working with many others. They have included, during their years as
	    graduate students at Loyola, <b>Eric Byville</b>, <b>Michael D.C. Drout</b>, <b>Stephen J.
	    Harris</b>, <b>Christina Heckman</b>, <b>Stephanie Lundeen</b>, <b>Christine Molinari</b>, and <b>Steven Thorngate</b>, and, as undergraduates, <b>Ryan Ptomey</b> and <b>Max Lopez</b>. <b>Jerry Sanders</b> of Loyola's
	    Information Technologies consulted on the very first phases of the edition, when "Information
	    Technology" had not yet evolved beyond the "Computer Center." <b>Craig Barry</b> rendered extensive
	    assistance with early phases of the programming.
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	 <p>  Special thanks are due to <b>Hoyt N. Duggan</b>, who took much time away from his own work to
	    move the state of this project forward.  Thanks also to <b>Gail Duggan</b>. The Duggans have
	    encouraged this project and, over the years, extended warm hospitality as the work took shape. 
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         <p>  This project was initially intended only as a conventional print edition of the three manuscripts of
	    the text known here as the <b>Scriftboc</b> and began in that form in 1983. In the course
	    of transcribing the manuscripts of this text I realized that a collective edition of all the
	    Anglo-Saxon penitentials would, with translations, be very useful. The technologies of word
	    processing and electronic editing advanced faster than my work did, and in the early 1990s I
	    began to plan an electronic edition of the corpus of Old English penitentials that would not only
	    offer all the manuscripts of all the penitential handbooks but that would also contain indices of the
	    many cultural topics mentioned in the penitentials. Platforms and browsers were constantly evolving and as a result some tags had to be revised more than once. Everyone who has worked with electronic editing becomes familiar with these problems and the delays they entail. There are many possible directions in which this project could be extended--digitized manuscript pages and others. But it seemed avisable to make the project available in its current form, since project will continue to evolve as time and energy allow. In the meantime, anyone who wants to read the Anglo-Saxon penitentials and study the early medieval culture they contain has, for the first time, a comprehensive tool to use.
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	 <p>  In 1994 the <b>John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation</b> funded the project, which was subsequently supported by
	    the College of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Loyola University Chicago. Leaves
	    of absence for other projects freed up time for additional work on this project in  2001 and
	    2005.
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